Show FIRE DESTROYS MUSIC STORE Cartensen Carstensen Anson COs Stock Is Ruined by Early Morning Blaze FIREMEN MEET DIFFICULTY 1 SEVERAL MEN ALMOST BY FALLING STAIRCASE The Carstensen I n Mute Maek c s at 74 71 So th Mt street wa vu practically de tire fire which broke out under mysterious atances about mor Ing The loaa 11 estimated lit Mt aH stock wail wa covered by c insurance E Every ry musical In the building was damaged ana ot of sheet mu music lc Mod anti several severe thou band tid planol pianola records were awL The be onga to the Taylor Armstrong com coin company pany wai dama damaged to the of about It is 18 a nd In all the will hay have hayto to be torn down Tile The discovered JS from the th rear or of the building and investigation found that the tON store Wits was on tire fire The alarm was turned In InI I No 1 and No 2 lle ti C doors were er broken down and yellow of dense den e belched forth Tb The firmen were driven drive back baek The flames wre but it was ImpossIble to ti inter the building lines of hose hOMe H cr laid ready for uee tise The firemen Iy ii ng flat on the floor shoved the hose hOtie hack back nt th the building They rhe rawle Into the but were soon to retreat Th new hardwood floor that had just completed was blistered d with heat heal TA rill walls were also hot and in places the tell fell off Hard to Locate Flames It was vaa alf that the flames flame were In the th ba mt asil ere up Ute tue to the R second nd ator story efforts ero made to find a trap door The rh buIld was WilS hot U as an wen oven and there ther wa was 1 J b wa of telling where the flumes flame would rak r ak out Captain Mike Earl fItted on oni i smoke and crawled through h thc building but could find ind no flames The smoke be became und and the heat hett broke the windows When a draught wp 1 r med the crackIng of the fismes 1 1 f heard They were ere Lw thy basement aud lid without further delay delf the axe were put lt putI In I operation A hole was chopped through V t h This tanned the wood w oud into They burst out through d or of the floor which sank tak rig pianos with It into the The lose hose was waa put h Ia operation bet the fire Were unable to stand the heat hent and mok for fOI any length of time fre re tent sent In to fight the tire fire and one or two of the firemen had to be 00 carried out Firemen in Danger I An entrance was WI gained through the I of the buildIng where the firemen I fight the flames flame with Uh some degree of if safety They hey held the fire In cheek check hut th the smoke was l suffocating From th the rUlIf advant advantageous work was wa acc In fighting the flames which were t UI tip through the partitions to the pond floor The staircase e fell feU and sev tW ral men narrowly being carried wIth ith It Into the b basement Holes Hole were opened up in the walls front from the roof and andt t tream of water was put ut In action five streams ot of water had played J If the tLe building for tor a fe few minutes the were doc control The Ih smoke d tred arld out but the fire had bad reached ry part of oC the The partitions Wrt knocked out both up upstairs t And The laths were and It ii 1 mk some ome time lime to extinguish aU all the Uv live mb rs hid W M Bywater saki akl the fire had hadt t been n burning slowly for tor several It was discovered lie He stated that it was the hardest tire fire to fight he heIt It iii 11 ver witnessed lIe made a thorough with a vie view or of Ute the theof Ii of the fire but Its origin is a mys tr Carpenters had beca n at work ork on onti tIll ti Ik floor up to midnight in order to tot t 4 it The beards hat had been given RIven coat ot of oU oil and it i is po possible that the started from spontaneous combus I tiju It might have started from tI defect feet h wiring but there ther W was 8 nothing that be found to bear this out New Stock and Fixtures Gone StOCk of new pianos had bad st about a week ago slid aud LO 1500 1101 sPent tent tot fo fixtures AU the neW ck was wail damaged Mild and many of oC the In instruments NY lay In the basement split Into J Il wood The large had through the floor and carr carrIed td th Ih office fixtures with willa It The whole m in mid id of the building waa Wi wrecked and the frt ruined the walls wall They are likely to toi i til at any moment The rhe roof would hardly hear bear the weight ot of the firemen tri is In a dangerous condition Paring During the fire several everal members ot of the theft 1 ft 1 rn m were there In Iii the afternoon ar were ere made to occupy the iding on Main street formerly u nied b by tho t Fargo I Co bank and the therm 1 rm expects to beam business there t td to d rerat ear of ne new instruments 11 now on the way K from the t factorIes aLd will ill probably arrive within a few ew du di i Young ii Fowler Fower representatives of soy BeV BeVe had bad written about e ta eastern companies H lIUO of the insurance on the stock The Th I t of the on the stock was by b the Home FIre Insurance corn com F 1 The building carried about 1 in the Home Fire company t |